Donald Davie: Selected Poems

By Donald Davie

Book Overview

This selection from the first thirty years of Donald Davie's poetry reveals an impassioned spirit advancing from Augustan reserve towards the treacherous, rewarding risks of modernism. As a critic, Helen Vendler writes, "he has drawn a map of modernism, starting with Hardy and Pound, that remains one of the definitive outlines of twentieth-century experiment in form and language. The mapmaker, in this case," she adds, "is a notable locus on the map."

His poetry is an abiding source and a resource for readers and other writers.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1857543602
• ISBN13: 9781857543605
• Release Date: July 1997
• Publisher: Carcanet Press
• Length: 128 Pages